Healing. Cleansing. Breaking. Bleeding.

You know when you get a scrape and you bleed? You know how the blood actually helps clean the wound?

It turns out that you need blood to heal. To live.

I already knew that, but somehow that thought clicked with me today.

It helped. It helped because I feel like I’m bleeding sometimes, but that means that I’m alive. That I am cleansing pain, hatred, sorrow, and betrayal from my life.

Sometimes you need to allow yourself to feel the mess you’re in.

I am not saying to cut yourself– that never solves anything. I am saying to reflect, paint, write, draw, sing, run, dance, scream. Be silent. Pray.

Do not give up.

Sometimes, you feel the most like your bleeding when something or someone opens the wound– sometimes that is when something happy is going on, but it catches the stitches and starts to tear them out. You bleed all over again, until finally the wound can stay closed and heal properly. Sometimes there are scars, but they aren’t as noticeable and they certainly do not open quite as easily.

I am actually doing well right now. I am finding strength in some unexpected places.

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I am a girl on a mission, and the mission I am on is to be myself. I am an undiscovered treasure, and here I am giving you a key that will allow you a little further into the labyrinth of who I am.

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Reading: just about anything I can get my hands on, other blogs, and especially YA Fiction Novels. Lately I have been really into anything by SARK and other non-fiction books.
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Writing: updates for my blog, a children's book, music/lyrics, and letters to pen pals. ;)
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Singing: Warm-Ups.
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Learning: How to use my voice as an instrument, History of Art, Watercolor, how to be actively involved in creating a better community, and something new every single day.
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Hoping for: Wisdom and patience when things are hard, a smile no matter what, and a better community. __________________________________
Dreaming about: HAPPINESS
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Eating: <3 Peanut Butter Pie. Peanut Butter Sandwiches. Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies.
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Drinking: Water, usually.
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Playing: The Sims 3, Dance Central, and the Piano and Guitar.
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Watching: Christmas/Halloween movies, Who's the Boss? reruns, and crazy-cool documentaries about dead people.
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Listening to: Informative & Educational Podcasts, all kinds of music, and trying to listen to my parents (they are very wise, after all).

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Heather loves hats that are designed to look like cute animals, fairy wings, cheese pizza, swimming in ponds, roller blading, taking silly self-portraits, learning, spending time with people, and just about everything else too. Heather does not love ... well, there isn't a lot that she doesn't love. You can probably figure it out after a little while!